What is the Best Book you've ever read?

[Jennasis]

Really enjoyed Jurassic PArk (ps...this way eons before it was ever being considered for a movie).

 

[KSchwagg86]

I'm going to have to go with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

 

[Youarehere]

Outllander- Diana Gabaldon
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom- Cory Doctorow
Myth Adventure sseries- Robert Asprin

 

[RunningGirl]

The Stand - Stephen King
Beach Music - Pat Conroy
East of Eden - Steinbeck
The Kite Runner - Hosseini
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Rowling
Pillars of the Earth - Follett
The Historian - Kostova

 

[Lanshark]

I just bought The Stand based on this thread

It's hard to pick just a few

A Prayer for Owen Meany
To Kill a Mockingbird

The Glass Castle
Harry Potter Series (I can't help it)
Clan of the Cavebear
Shogun
Lonesome Dove
I am Legend

 

[NMAmy]

I'm going to have to go with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

This was my absolute favorite book when I was little. When dd was young, just about everyone in my family sent me a copy because I had nagged them all incessantly to read it to me.

Hey, I still like it. It's a classic.

 

[Angelhalo]

Really enjoyed Jurassic PArk (ps...this way eons before it was ever being considered for a movie).

Ooooh good call!

 

[WDWBarb]

I just bought The Stand based on this thread

There's something about The Stand that just really grabs you and pulls you in. Stephen King demonstrated amazing character development in this book. To this day, I feel like some of the characters were "old friends." You just get to know them and understand them that well.

I didn't care for the ending - it's the story that got me. It's terrifying, it makes me cry, it made me think and even had a few small laughs thrown in. It's LONG, for sure, but I relished every page.

 

[Jennasis]

If we are talking kids books? Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.

 

[Disney-Kim]

I don't know if I have an absolute favorite but a few that I really enjoyed and would read over and over....

The Stand
Duma Key - Stephen King - loved this one !!!

Clan of the Cavebear triology

The Dragonbone Chair series - Tad Williams - LOVE LOVE THESE !!!

The Lord of the Rings series

Watchers, Strangers, and Lightning by Dean Koontz

Harry Potter series - very entertaining...especially waiting for the final book

 

[hellokitty86]

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Definitely one of my favorite books!!! I recommend it to everyone I know. I also love "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb.

My other favorites are "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg and "Standing in the Rainbow" also by Fannie Flagg. I could read all 4 of these over and over!

 

[luv2sew]

If we are talking kids books? Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.

Did you know that this has been made into a movie?


My fav's

The Giver
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Harry Potter series

and to indulge my love of romance novels my all time fav

A Rose in Winter - Johanna Lindsey Love it and read it many times!

 

[OceanAnnie]

Definitely one of my favorite books!!! I recommend it to everyone I know. I also love "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb.

My other favorites are "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg and "Standing in the Rainbow" also by Fannie Flagg. I could read all 4 of these over and over!

I loved those books too!

I loved the movie, Fried Green Tomatoes , I've seen it several times. I should read that book!

 

[hellokitty86]

I loved the movie, Fried Green Tomatoes , I've seen it several times. I should read that book!

You totally should! As much as I love the movie, I think the book is soooo much better! Usually I hate when my favorite books are made into movies- but they did a good job with Fried Green Tomatoes.

 

[OceanAnnie]

You totally should! As much as I love the movie, I think the book is soooo much better! Usually I hate when my favorite books are made into movies- but they did a good job with Fried Green Tomatoes.

It's on my list now! Thanks!

 

[C.Ann]

"The Pull Of The Moon" by Elizabeth Berg..

It's about a 50-ish woman - who is going through the "empy nest" syndrome - feeling lost and confused - and leaves her home and her husband to travel around the country for a bit in hopes of "finding herself" - who she "is" now - what her "purpose" is.. It's supposed to be fiction, but in reading that book you would swear that it has to be non-fiction.. There is no way that someone could dream up those thoughts and feelings "in their head" to write a novel like that.. It's too real..

It's an amazing book - and even though my DH passed away in 2005 - I read that book over and over again (at least once a year).. For anyone who has ever suffered from the "empty nest syndrome", this book is a "must".. It captures every thought - every emotion - right down to the letter..

 

[shortbun]

When I was in 9th grade, my English class read the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer. We read a lot of it out loud and discussed. I LOVED those books. My English teacher was amazing; she could make a book come alive!!!

In my 20's, my favorites were the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I fell into those fantasies so deeply.

Lately, my favorite is "The Secret Life of Bees." The descriptive passages allowed me to smell and taste what was being described. I thought that pretty cool.

 

[shortbun]

hands down...The Giver

This is my son's favorite book. His teacher gave it to him in the 3rd grade because he was complaining that her other choices were too juvenile. She asked that I read it at the same time so he could discuss it along the way. When we finished, he west back and read it again. He read it last year in 7th grade and he plans to read it againg someday. I liked it too.

 

[Angelhalo]

I just finished The Sex Lives of Cannibals and it was really great. I highly recommend it.

 

[Jennasis]

If we are talking kids books? Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.

Did you know that this has been made into a movie?


My fav's

The Giver
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Harry Potter series

and to indulge my love of romance novels my all time fav

A Rose in Winter - Johanna Lindsey Love it and read it many times!

Yup, but after seeing the preview it looks nothing like my beloved book. Sad.